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Fantastische KuchenkrationenAmazing cakes baked by Karen Portaleo, cake artist at the Highland Bakery in Atlanta, USA/ 2009[Now THAT is the icing on the cake! The stunning sponges that look too good to eat - With their elaborate sugar-spun details, these sweet treats are certainly not a piece of cake to make. And clay-sculptor Karen Portaleo's stunning cakes are guaranteed to satisfy any sweet tooth. Despite Karen having no formal culinary training, the lead decorator and her team from the Highland Bakery (www.highlandbakery.com) in Atlanta, Georgia, always rise to the occasion. They whisk up jaw-dropping creations including life-like cakes shaped like animals, people and handbags for her guests - although they all come at a considerable price-tag.But when your clients include Sir Elton John, Demi Moore and rapper L'il Wayne, they can afford to have their cake and eat it. Karen has been asked to create many intricate designs; from octopuses, complete with their eight tentacles twisting around its body, to a poodle with 'fluffy hair' icing, to under the sea themed gingerbread houses, to a sumo wrestler. But the proof is in the pudding, and talented Karen's team prides themselves on making sure the tasty treats are not only a feast for the eyes, but one for the lips. The former sculptor carved out her baking career when she offered to help out her friend Stacey Eames, who opened the Highland Bakery in Atlanta in 2005. 'Upon my first visit I noticed she had no decorative items in her bakery cases, so I asked if maybe I could make a few cookies. That's how my career in cake decorating began,' Karen says on her website.'I have no culinary training and work only as a decorator. I did spend a good part of my childhood in bakeries, as my grandfather was a pastry chef before he retired.'On her blog, the lead cake decorator reveals secrets of how she creates the designs, always starting with visualizing the cake. On one poodle cake she wrote that she had to resort to a special technique for the design: 'Fluffy fur is not easy to recreate in sugar. That is unless you use a cotton candy machine like I did.'For her intricate octopus cake, she used copper tubing to support tentacles, piled on cakes and then carved out of the cake layers the shape, before using fondant to cover any seams. But the designer's career path initially focused no art, before she wanted a slice of the action from the cake business.] ( automatický překlad do češtiny ) ( zobrazit originální popisek v angličtině ) | ||
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